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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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His musings on falconry in Medieval times begin with the Bayeux Tapestry, which tells the story of the Norman Conquest and is full of birds, including hawks and falcons on the wrists of the main contenders.

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Birding Lakeview Drive Ponds, Paradise Island, New Providence, Bahamas

10,000 Birds

From 20 February through 25 February I was on a family-and-friends vacation on New Providence in the Bahamas. But this post isn’t about water slides, $15 rum drinks, the horrors of tourist traps, or the morality of pocketing bread from the breakfast buffet for later. Later in the year Gray Kingbirds would make that list as well.

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The Checklist is more than a taxonomic listing of species and chapter number and title; it also contains useful notes on each bird family. Finches, for example, are “especially prone to nomadism,” and Falcons, as many experienced birders know, are more closely related to parrots and songbirds than to hawks and eagles.

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